Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Ah yes, with the quickness once again, it's another essential installment of Hit It & Quit It radio with your hosts, Recloose & Frank Booker.
This week on the show we decided to debate the merits of the New Zealand music industry, a touchy subject at the best of times, and certainly one that drew wide and varied responses from our listeners. Some of them even told us it wasn't a talk show. Clearly they don't tune in much!
On to the music side of things: Fresh music from Fudge Fingas (check out his great debut album, 'Now About How', just released on Prime Numbers. Tip!), Norm Talley, KRL, Tom Trago, Alton Miller and yours truly, debuting a new tune in our semi-regular "Ruff Cutz" feature.
Enjoy the show! Hit It!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Not even 24 hours after it's original broadcast- a brand new edition of Hit It & Quit It radio for your eardrums. Don't say we do nothing for ya!

Recloose mean mugging.

This week we celebrated, among other things: Recloose's Resident Advisor Podcast (live for the week, grab it if you haven't already!), great new music (check the playlist below), and the onset of the Southern Hemisphere's Autumnal season (maybe it was just me celebrating that).

Friday, March 18, 2011

Friends. This week sees an abbreviated installment of Hit It and Quit It. If you were lucky enough to listen in live you heard a sneak peak of the Recloose Resident Advisor podcast 'Three Words' being posted up this Monday on the site, including a brand new Recloose and Oliverwho Factory track making their world debuts (soon to be heard on the HIT IT & QUIT IT RADIO REVUE Vol. I compilation).

If you weren't near a radio or computer from 6-8pm on Monday, fear not... you can check the podcast in its entirety on this page from Monday next week... RA Podcast page.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

It was inevitable that at some stage the topic of sandwiches would arise for lengthy discussion on the show. After all, my partner in crime on the airwaves is he of the infamous "demo on rye" many years ago in Detroit. Needless to say, I was somewhat out of my depth, for as Recloose pointed out: NZ has many strong qualities, but quality sandwich making is not one of them! So we ran through a range of classics and not-so-classics from our listeners and managed to make this drag on for an hour or so. If you're about to tune in: Do yourself a favour and fix yourself a Rueben!

In terms of the music, it was very much focused on the Dance side of things this week: Some excellent new stuff from Christian Prommer, Francis Orchestra Inferno, Falty DL, J Rocc, Moodymann (Egyptian Lover on the mix!) and much, much more.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

In light of recent events in Canterbury this week's installment was a markedly more subdued affair. Recloose and Reggie Blount we're in-house playing some new stuff and an array of inspirational joints for the people of Christchurch and Canterbury in what we coined the 'Harbangers of Hope'. While the appeal may have a been a lil clumsy, all the music and sentiment came straight from the heart. We just hope a few Cantabrians* got a momentary dance in...(*Note: Don't ask Americans to say 'Cantabrians'. You'll hear what we're talking about.)

Our sincere apologies for missing a crucial element of our impromptu Red Cross NZ Earthquake Relief pledge drive (we were told simply to instruct people to text '333' or '555'). If you choose to donate this way please include the word 'quake' in your text, it will result in a $3 or $5 donation to the NZ Red Cross.

Further donations can be made here---> www.redcross.org.nz

I guess the final thought here, also for people not in New Zealand, is to please maintain the level of support for the relief effort we've seen to this point. It will be a very long time until Canterbury can be rebuilt and return to a semblance of normalcy. In the meantime there have been many many people rendered homeless, jobless, having lost love ones with extreme trauma heaped onto their lives. Your thoughts, prayers, financial and spiritual support are a few ways you can help heal the damage inflicted on the hearts and souls of Canterbury.